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From: Thomas Koch <thomas@koch.ro>
Subject: Re: Please consider extending .gitignore to support setting of a file size limit
Date: Fri, 8 May 2015 08:44:39 +0200
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Cc: Roger Mendes <sproger1@gmail.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
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On Thursday, May 07, 2015 11:31:12 PM Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Roger Mendes <sproger1@gmail.com> writes:
> > Allow .gitignore to support setting a file size limit so that all
> > files over a certain size will by automatically ignored when
> > performing git add, commit -a...;
> 
> No.

Please have a look into "git annex". It provides large file support without
blowing up the repository size entirely and has facilities to decide what to
do with files based on multiple criterias like file size.

Maybe some features from git annex have matured enough to be proposed
for inclusion into git?

Regards, Thomas Koch